# constantlydrunk? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 27, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765 "2004-12-27T12:13:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/1 "2004-12-27T12:13:14Z")
[Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=5623364#post5623364) I met a new member named **constantlydrunk**. I was surprised and quite intriqued to see that our new friend managed to get banned with a post count as low as 4! 4 posts? The post that I read seemed o.k. (unless Mariah Carey references are now against the rules- an addendum to which I would not object) so I clicked on “View All Posts By User” to see how this person got into so much trouble so quickly. But, although the post count is listed as 4, the _only_ post that came up in the search was the one post that I had already seen. I also tried searching the username in the “key words” field in case there was an instance of a Mod saying, “ **constantlydrunk** , the new rules _explicitly_ forbid Mariah Carey references! Consider yourself banned!” but I found nothing. So, what up? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![35340](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/8baadc/32.png) [@35340](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/35340)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/2 "2004-12-27T12:27:45Z")
my guess is sock puppet or regurgitated banned user. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/3 "2004-12-27T12:36:47Z")
And the unaccounted for 3 posts? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/4 "2004-12-27T14:05:00Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > And the unaccounted for 3 posts? The mods sometimes rip sock posts out, root and stem, and then spray the surrounding area with agent orange. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/5 "2004-12-27T14:08:21Z")
I’m gonna miss him whoever he was. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/6 "2004-12-27T19:48:41Z")
When we find someone with more than one screen name, we tend to remove all evidence of their repeated presence on the board; we do not reward bad behavior. However, when the system is wonky (as has been the case recently), we tend to let things stay simply because we don’t want to tie up scarce system resources or make a bad situation worse. A lot of the housekkeeping things we do have the potential to stop the board dead in its tracks at least temporarily. We always weigh the value of what we do from an enforcement standpoint with how much it might inconvenience you, our user, so sometimes that means we let some things go – at least for the present. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/7 "2005-01-04T15:20:25Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > We always weigh the value of what we do from an enforcement standpoint with how much it might inconvenience you, our user, so sometimes that means we let some things go – at least for the present. > > your humble TubaDiva > Administrator Aww, that’s so sweet. So I’m guessing we can assume that most of the banned users with low post counts are socks or the like? Because I see them every so often and it does seem strange when there’s someone banned after like two posts. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constantlydrunk/281765/8 "2005-01-05T00:52:22Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > Aww, that’s so sweet. So I’m guessing we can assume that most of the banned users with low post counts are socks or the like? Because I see them every so often and it does seem strange when there’s someone banned after like two posts. Either that, or they say something so horribly or outrageous in their first couple of posts that they are deemed unworthy of bothering with at all.